Stanley Stocker
@stanleystocker.bsky.social
He/Him. PEN America/Dau Prize, Creative Power Award, Finalist Best Spiritual Award - Fiction. “Writing is an act of patient endurance; it is a spiritual pursuit, and curiosity is the god that oversees it all.” - Paisley Rekdal
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Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
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Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!
October 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
This is wonderful 🌕
Honored that my piece Moon Boots found the best home in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social
It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...
It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...
Moon Boots
Our baby could not yet hold his head up. I lay on my parents’ living room floor next to my son, wondering how I was going to afford and overcome everything by myself, thinking I was too clumsy to take...
www.thesunmagazine.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is wonderful 🌕
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EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS! Round 2. I got urgent medical bills cause my physical health has been declining. I’m a disabled, black artist and feel like I don’t have to explain how hard that’s been over the last years. Please share and consider buying. Thank you everyone and sorry. 🥲💖 #commissions #art
May 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS! Round 2. I got urgent medical bills cause my physical health has been declining. I’m a disabled, black artist and feel like I don’t have to explain how hard that’s been over the last years. Please share and consider buying. Thank you everyone and sorry. 🥲💖 #commissions #art
I did an interview about keeping notebooks / diaries / journals in @kellymcmasters.bsky.social newsletter. Thanks again, Kelly, for allowing a member of the journaling tribe to share.
kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...
kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...
SHOW ME YOUR DIARY
featuring writer Stanley Stocker
kellymcmasters.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I did an interview about keeping notebooks / diaries / journals in @kellymcmasters.bsky.social newsletter. Thanks again, Kelly, for allowing a member of the journaling tribe to share.
kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...
kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...
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The kids are ok.
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The kids are ok.
Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
May 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
An invaluable guide to applying for writing residencies from Prince Shakur.
Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship.
open.substack.com/pub/princesh...
Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship.
open.substack.com/pub/princesh...
How to Master The Writing Residency Application
An ESSENTIAL Checklist for fine tuning your application every time to make the process faster and to get more acceptances
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May 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
An invaluable guide to applying for writing residencies from Prince Shakur.
Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship.
open.substack.com/pub/princesh...
Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship.
open.substack.com/pub/princesh...
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Please, please, please, I need your help!
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Please, please, please, I need your help!
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
"Through the peep hole I saw a harried-looking white woman. Though she appeared younger than me, her hair was brittle and frizzed and her cheek bones stuck out painfully. She was curled over a package buried against her chest. It was wrapped in a blanket and had the form of a human."
New story out now! A postpartum woman struggles to believe what she knows is true about her child. ghostcitypress.com/february-202...
Thanks to Ghost City Review for publishing it.
Thanks to Ghost City Review for publishing it.
February 2025 — Ghost City Press
Ghost City Review February 2025
ghostcitypress.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Through the peep hole I saw a harried-looking white woman. Though she appeared younger than me, her hair was brittle and frizzed and her cheek bones stuck out painfully. She was curled over a package buried against her chest. It was wrapped in a blanket and had the form of a human."
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Here goes nothing. CLUB CONTANGO is eligible for the Hugo awards (novel) if you're so inclined. 🎲🔥 Single mum on a corporate-owned space station has three jobs and zero fucks left to give until murder, and union scabbing, breathe too close for comfort.
March 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Here goes nothing. CLUB CONTANGO is eligible for the Hugo awards (novel) if you're so inclined. 🎲🔥 Single mum on a corporate-owned space station has three jobs and zero fucks left to give until murder, and union scabbing, breathe too close for comfort.
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…your art comes out of your life, and you have to keep living until you have enough to write about.
Read, read, read. Art begets art.
Jane Kenyon
Read, read, read. Art begets art.
Jane Kenyon
March 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
…your art comes out of your life, and you have to keep living until you have enough to write about.
Read, read, read. Art begets art.
Jane Kenyon
Read, read, read. Art begets art.
Jane Kenyon
Love what Joyce Carol Oates had to say about the forms a short story can take. She basically said there are no rules except one: it can't be boring.
March 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Love what Joyce Carol Oates had to say about the forms a short story can take. She basically said there are no rules except one: it can't be boring.
Finally cracked the code on a short story paragraph that I've sweating over for a while.
Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.
Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.
March 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Finally cracked the code on a short story paragraph that I've sweating over for a while.
Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.
Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.
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I’ve been hit with the gun that lays you off so… hello, I’m Aysha, I write for games. Experience with both indie and AAA, along with IP writing and worldbuilding. I’ve lead teams and i’m great in a room. Hit me up
December 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
I’ve been hit with the gun that lays you off so… hello, I’m Aysha, I write for games. Experience with both indie and AAA, along with IP writing and worldbuilding. I’ve lead teams and i’m great in a room. Hit me up
Ever feel like you'd kill a mf for harming a fictional character? Listening to Joni Mitchell's "Cherokee Louise" had that effect on me. But then maybe she wasn't a fictional character? Mitchell seems to have often written about real people. So much the worse if she was real.
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ever feel like you'd kill a mf for harming a fictional character? Listening to Joni Mitchell's "Cherokee Louise" had that effect on me. But then maybe she wasn't a fictional character? Mitchell seems to have often written about real people. So much the worse if she was real.
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There are, seriously, a thousand more worthwhile things you could give your money to, but if you want to close out 2024 with a subscription to keep my little Degenerate Art newsletter resurrecting the past, spitting fire, and bossing everyone around in the coming year, it would delight me.
Degenerate Art
Andrea Pitzer on politics and history, the Arctic, and Appalachian exile.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There are, seriously, a thousand more worthwhile things you could give your money to, but if you want to close out 2024 with a subscription to keep my little Degenerate Art newsletter resurrecting the past, spitting fire, and bossing everyone around in the coming year, it would delight me.
This Li article resonates with me about a story of mine making the rounds now.
"The journey of one particular story ... especially frustrated me: for two years, it traveled around in the mail and gathered some of the kindest rejection letters I have ever received."
apublicspace.org/news/detail/...
"The journey of one particular story ... especially frustrated me: for two years, it traveled around in the mail and gathered some of the kindest rejection letters I have ever received."
apublicspace.org/news/detail/...
A Letter from Yiyun Li
apublicspace.org
December 30, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This Li article resonates with me about a story of mine making the rounds now.
"The journey of one particular story ... especially frustrated me: for two years, it traveled around in the mail and gathered some of the kindest rejection letters I have ever received."
apublicspace.org/news/detail/...
"The journey of one particular story ... especially frustrated me: for two years, it traveled around in the mail and gathered some of the kindest rejection letters I have ever received."
apublicspace.org/news/detail/...
Just learned that astronaut means "star sailor" from the Greek and it started out as a science fiction term from the 1800s.
December 30, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Just learned that astronaut means "star sailor" from the Greek and it started out as a science fiction term from the 1800s.
Weird when folks says an artist is overrated. Why not just say you don't like them very much? Overrated implies that there is some objective standard that they do not meet. That does not exist. Folks snipe so steady. They snub so snide. So ripe and ready to diminish or deride, as Joni reminds us.
December 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Weird when folks says an artist is overrated. Why not just say you don't like them very much? Overrated implies that there is some objective standard that they do not meet. That does not exist. Folks snipe so steady. They snub so snide. So ripe and ready to diminish or deride, as Joni reminds us.
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“A single black tea with tapioca pearls from Boba Guys contains more BPA than a person can safely consume in a year” and other brands are no safer.
This report is going to rock Bay Area teen culture sfstandard.com/2024/12/28/b...
This report is going to rock Bay Area teen culture sfstandard.com/2024/12/28/b...
Your boba tea is full of plastic chemicals
A new study has found high concentrations of plastic chemicals in products from Boba Guys and other local chains.
sfstandard.com
December 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM
“A single black tea with tapioca pearls from Boba Guys contains more BPA than a person can safely consume in a year” and other brands are no safer.
This report is going to rock Bay Area teen culture sfstandard.com/2024/12/28/b...
This report is going to rock Bay Area teen culture sfstandard.com/2024/12/28/b...
They struck in Paris too!
December 18, 2024 at 12:51 AM
They struck in Paris too!
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Heya my commissions are open! Only form of income rn. Sharing helps a ton
December 11, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Heya my commissions are open! Only form of income rn. Sharing helps a ton